A couple other comments:
1/ Is there any way to get the pictures that are used on the front-page feature-article thing to be part of the post. Particularly for the news/blog posts. For example, the hard drive acoustic one has a nifty picture of the sound meter, but said picture is nowhere to be found in the actual blog post.

2/ Could the "Top news stories" on the front-page be the link to the news.x page? That'd be really convenient.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:A couple other comments:1/ Is there any way to get the pictures that are used on the front-page feature-article thing to be part of the post. Particularly for the news/blog posts. For example, the hard drive acoustic one has a nifty picture of the sound meter, but said picture is nowhere to be found in the actual blog post.

2/ Could the "Top news stories" on the front-page be the link to the news.x page? That'd be really convenient.

The CMS image handling code gives the author the flexibility to set any image as the lead image, even if it's not otherwise part of the item. This is by design. TR feature content was, up to now, pretty much completely free-form. The TR staff is used to complete control and flexibility and one of the design goals of the CMS was to preserve as much of that as possible.

Another thing I've just noted. When Kevin moved the "banning tag" thread from the 'Porch to R&P (I should have done it earlier myself ), I'm still seeing a MOVED: threadlink on the 'Porch. I've cleared history & cookies as well as rebooting and the MOVED link is still there.

I would like to request a link to news.x somewhere in the discussion (http://techreport.com/discussions.x/) pages, so when someone makes a post to the news comments, they don't have to back-back-back through the post page in order to get to the news page again, or hit the front page again only to click on it's news link.

Look at my message number 68 in the comments there. It includes a relatively-short URL linking to a forum thread. Depending on your choice of font size, the URL is longer than the tiny narrow window allotted for comment text. The margins for the text in that post are stretched to the width of the URL, but the margins for the skinny window are not changed, so a chunk of the text is invisible, like it ran off the right edge of the tiny ribbon of the comment "page".

You can see the same thing happening in Axeman's comment #93.

The text column available for my comment is a puny 430 pixels wide. I haven't owned a computer screen that narrow since 1990.

Look at my message number 68 in the comments there. It includes a relatively-short URL linking to a forum thread. Depending on your choice of font size, the URL is longer than the tiny narrow window allotted for comment text. The margins for the text in that post are stretched to the width of the URL, but the margins for the skinny window are not changed, so a chunk of the text is invisible, like it ran off the right edge of the tiny ribbon of the comment "page".

You can see the same thing happening in Axeman's comment #93.

Yep, we struggled with that. Long URLs get truncated, but at a set character length which doesn't always correspond to the right pixel width. That's definitely on the list to fix in the next version of the comment system.

Is there any plan to bring back the old query that showed the 10 most recently commented on articles (front-page, not forum)? I really liked that to be able to track comments. Right now, it's almost impossible to keep up with discussions once they have moved down the page.

Another quick suggestion. Can you have a link on the poll that's on the front page that goes to the discussion.x (ex: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14243) page for it? That'd be really handy instead of having to click "more polls" and then click in from there.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:Is there any plan to bring back the old query that showed the 10 most recently commented on articles (front-page, not forum)? I really liked that to be able to track comments. Right now, it's almost impossible to keep up with discussions once they have moved down the page.

That still exists, it just got bumped from the front page. It's still on the discussions.x pages.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:Is there any plan to bring back the old query that showed the 10 most recently commented on articles (front-page, not forum)? I really liked that to be able to track comments. Right now, it's almost impossible to keep up with discussions once they have moved down the page.

That still exists, it just got bumped from the front page. It's still on the discussions.x pages.

Are you talking about the "Top discussion topics"? I seem to recall one that wasn't sorted by most posts this week, but was a list of the 8-10 topics that people had most recently posted in, just like the hot threads was a list of the most recent threads people had posted in.